Hope no one is sick of animal posts since today's offering is a nod to an albatross named Wisdom who is in her 70s. It is hard to be accurate about her age but she was first banded in 1956 when she laid her first egg and they don't mate until they are at least 5 and sometimes older. She has definitely done her part to help keep her kind going since she has raised somewhere between 30-50 eggs. They only lay one egg every year on Midway atoll where they meet up with their mates in November every year. She has also flown at least 3,000,000 miles in her lifetime. Unfortunately her mate has not returned the last two seasons but raising fledglings into her 70s seems like plenty of production. Oh, she didn't get the name Wisdom until her 6th decade when it was decided she was more than number Z333, about time!
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